The early South-English legendary ; or, Lives of saints. I. Ms. Laud, 108, in the Bodleian library. Edited by Carl Horstmann.

                                
                                  And vnwuyrþere þane a lewed Man : holi churche were so:
                                
                                  A lewed Man for o trespas : bote o Iuggement nis i-do.
                                  Line 464 
                                
                                  Þare-fore þine grace we biddeth þe : ȝif it is þi wille,
                                
                                  Þat þov ne a-rere none newe lawe : holi churche to spille,
                                
                                  For we biddez niȝt ant day : ase riȝt is for-to do,
                                
                                  Þat god holde þe þine riȝte : and þine reavme al-so."
                                  Line 468 
                                
                                   [Rex.] ¶ "beav sire," quath þe king þo : "þov seist wel i-novȝ.
                                
                                  Ich hadde lothz bi mi concience : don holi churche wovȝ;
                                
                                  For lawes þere beoth and costomes : þat habbethz euere beon i-holde
                                
                                  Of bischopus þoruȝ al Engelond : ase ovre Aunceteres us tolde,
                                  Line 472 
                                
                                  And bi þe kingus daye henries : þat ovre graunt-sire was
                                
                                  I-confermede weren and i-holde : And no man þare-aȝen nas.
                                
                                  Woltþu þulke lawes holde? : do me to witene sone!"
                                
                                  "We schullen do," seint Thomas seide : "al þat is to done— [Thomas.] 
                                  Line 476 
                                
                                  Alle þe lawes and þe costomes : we schullen holde bi ore miȝte
                                
                                  Þat beothz to holde and habbeth i-beo : sire,—sauue oure riȝte."
                                
                                   [Rex.] "Sauue ouwer riȝte?" quath þe king : "bev sire, ȝwi seistþou so?
                                
                                  bi þulke worde Ine scholde no-þing : aȝen þine wille do
                                  Line 480 
                                
                                  Þat þov noldest segge þat it were : a-ȝen holi churche riȝte,
                                
                                  And so þou miȝtest bringe al þat lond : In contek and In fiȝte.
                                
                                  Ȝe moten holde þe lawes : for-soþe ich onder-stonde,
                                
                                  Þat word me þinchez venimous : to þe pays of þe londe."
                                  Line 484 
                                
                                   [Thomas.] "Sire," quath þis holi man : "ne meue ȝe ov riȝt nouȝt!
                                
                                  Wel þov wost þat ech of us : are we weren here-to i-brouȝt,
                                
                                  Trewenesse we þe sworen ase riȝt was : and eorþelich honour al-so,
                                
                                  Sauue ore ordre and ore riȝte— : bote þat was out i-do.
                                  Line 488 
                                
                                  hou scholde we, sire, nouþe oþur do? : ȝe ne Auȝten it us nouȝt beode.
                                
                                  For godes loue hold us to riȝte : for nouþe we habbez neode."
                                
                                   [Rex.] ¶ "Ich i-seo nouþe, thomas," quath þe king : "ȝware-to þou wult drawe;
                                
                                  Þov art I-come to late : to bi-nimen us ovre lawe.
                                  Line 492 
                                
                                  Þov woldest makien me more wrechche : þane euere ani kyng was:
                                
                                  Þare-to þov art i-come to late : þou cast aumbes as."
                                
                                  þe king [aros] in wrathþe a-non : and let heom sitte ech-one; [folio 66b] 
                                
                                  In-to is chaumbre he wende : and ne grette heom neuer one.
                                  Line 496 
                                
                                  Fram londone he wende sone : In wrathþe ase þei it were,

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Title: The early South-English legendary ; or, Lives of saints. I. Ms. Laud, 108, in the Bodleian library. Edited by Carl Horstmann.
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